METEOROLOGY. 



By Cleveland Abbe. 



I. — INSTITUTIONS AND INDIVIDUALS. 



The second meeting of the International Committee was held at Co- 

 penhagen August 1 to 5, 1882. The principal resolutions related to the 

 organization of an exhibit in London in connection with the Interna- 

 tional Fisheries Exhibition, May, 1883; at which the proposed meteorolog- 

 ical exhibit should specially include whatever relates to (1) weather pre- 

 dictions and storm warnings ; (2) the publication of meteorological 

 data, especially the time of rainfall, the monthly mean for the preceding 

 month, and the publication in full of meteorological observations during 

 the year of international polar observations; (3) the preparation of 

 daily charts of the Atlantic Ocean by the co-oporation of Captain Hoff- 

 meyer and Dr. Neumayer ; (4) the scientific and practical importance 

 of the submarine cable connecting Iceland and the Faroe Islands; 

 (5) the publication of international meteorological tables as prepared 

 by Mascart and Wild ; (6) the preparation of individual catalogues of 

 the meteorological literature of the respective nations. (Z. 0. G. M.,* 

 xvii, p. 358.) 



Dr. Assmann states that means have been provided to re-establish on 

 the Brocken (at the expense of the Magdeburg Brocken Club) the mete- 

 orological station which has just been abandoned by the Prussian mete- 

 orological office. He hopes before long to have a telegraph cable and 

 continuous records. (Z. 0. G. M., xviii, p. 68.) 



Prof. Emil Plantamour was born at Geneva May 14, 1815, and died 

 on September 6, 1882. His life and energies were equally given to 

 astronomy and terrestrial physics. After several years' study under 

 eminent astronomers in Europe he was settleii, in 1839, as professor and 

 director of the observatory at Geneva, which place he continued to fill 

 until his death, and whence he exerted a great influence both as an 

 astronomer, geodesist, and meteorologist. (Z. 0. G. M., xviii, p. 1.) 



Johann Albert Arndt, born May 27, 1811, in Saxony; died August 21, 

 1882. In 1847 Professor Arndt became one of the observers of the 



*Tke initials Z. 0. G. H. designate the Zeitschrift der Oesterreichischen Gescllschaft fiir 

 Meteorologie. 



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